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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor Emeritus
University of Waterloo, Canada

Updated with quotes for September 2023:

Classic:
. . . the influential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passionate error that has ever characterized the maddest mob.
— Nathaniel Hawthore, The House of Seven Gables, 1850.

Direct:
Your university's ethics tribunal, if it is staffed by true believers in its aims, is a tinderbox of hysteria. It can ignite even sodden minds and set them raging in righteous indignation.
— Eliminating Professors, 1998.

Garden moment for September 2023:

I've never regretted building this fence to accommodate a box planter on the railing. Here it is planted with Iron Cross Oxalis, a lovely bulbous perennial from Mexico. It rarely survives the winter in Niagara, so I harvest the tiny bulbs in the fall for replanting in spring.

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